Rework Bluemage!

[DrWho2010]

it will never become a normal job. direct your whining somewhere else =p

[ReiMakoto]

it will never become a normal job. direct your whining somewhere else =p

[Tennotsukai]

it will never become a normal job. direct your whining somewhere else =p

Born in 2010 were we? Whatever. Thanks for helping this forum thread stay alive.

[Nithralder]

Blue Mage current implementation is horrible and needs to be reworked to fit the current content.

[Zerogunsoul81]

it will never become a normal job. direct your whining somewhere else =p

Yeah. If enough people keep telling them to fix it, they almost have too. And they'll never learn if we just stay quiet.

[Senrac]

I agree with most people about Blue Mage needing to be a regular job starting at level one! This is an easy fix: 1) remove the blue mage spell book (it is not needed) & put all our spells in the level requirement tree like all the other classes, 2) spells can only be learned from the world npc's & dungeon bosses like normal, 3) the info on what npc's to learn spells from will be in the spells text on the ability page, 4) reduce the spells & overpowered spells damage output like 1000 needles doing 500 damage max but be on a 2-3 minute timer or useable only once per battle, 5) make spells like self destruct have a penalty for using them like you can't be resurrected if you use it (like some boss fights in game now where you fall to your death & can't be res'd), & make Carnival open to every class to just have fun in! Just some ideas I have about the nonclass/limit job! Watcha all think?!?

[GavynG]

BLU will probably never be implemented the way we want. As badly as we all want a modern BLU to main as in this game, they've relegated it to mid-expansion side content to try and bank off of BLU's popularity when the population is lower.

FFXI made me fall in love with BLU ten times over. FFXIV made me finally stop caring about it. All of the excuses they use just don't justify how BLU works in this game. They didn't want to nerf "powerful spells" for the sake of balance in this game, but it costs us the ability to actually play it with people. In an MMO. I'm sure most of us wouldn't mind weaker effects if we could actually main our favorite job, clearing content with our friends.

But hey at least we can cast White Wind by ourselves!

And requiring people to get spells isn't as big of a deal as Yoshi-P made it out to be. People adapt and learn how to play the game. Especially most of us that love the job anyway.

[ShivaTairo]

I remember seeing the roadmap for Blu, and how yoshi was so proud about this horrible platter of crap.
That road map NEVER happened, it was supposed to by 5.0 lol

Blu is dead, pissed
And ranged caster was the WORST choice for blue mage.
Blus are physical, period. They always use swords

[LichKaiser]

YoshiP never liked blue mage to be implemented to FF14, he highly disapproved it as a job, and implemented just for the fan base. Blue architecture isnt good for a mmo old style like ff14, is more a single player rpg style job. And as it is now will allways be just a mini-game job for 2/3 weeks content.. or less.
Blu will never be reworked as a REAL job, sad but true, it will just get a level increase to match with old content, some new magic and some unique content/minigame, thats it. Blu mage its just a mini game job to run old stuff for 2/3 week and then forget about his existance.

[Verlyn]

YoshiP never liked blue mage to be implemented to FF14, he highly disapproved it as a job, and implemented just for the fan base. Blue architecture isnt good for a mmo old style like ff14, is more a single player rpg style job. And as it is now will allways be just a mini-game job for 2/3 weeks content.. or less.
Blu will never be reworked as a REAL job, sad but true, it will just get a level increase to match with old content, some new magic and some unique content/minigame, thats it. Blu mage its just a mini game job to run old stuff for 2/3 week and then forget about his existance.

It has worked in a multiplayer environment before, it can work in a multiplayer environment again. If FFXIV is so constrained, so strict, that they can't design around a concept as simple as 'Job that uses skills that enemies also use,' then we might as well never expect any genuinely new gameplay out of this game.